Stephens Community Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Fort McKay and Scott Henry Rds., Sutherlin, 97462
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. district
Census division. Sutherlin
National Register reference number. 84000135 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Stephens Community Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OAKHILL RD. #2
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	COMSTOCK ROAD
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	SHERWOOD
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	I-5 MP 140
29 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	FORT MCKAY RD.
28 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	LOWER GARDEN VALLEY
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	FORT MCKAY RD.
25 September 1999	Fireworks	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	GREEN VALLEY # 2

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stephens Community Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pit #744	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit #744	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sutherlin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sutherlin	$10,000	A member of the public submitted a photograph showing a large tree that was apparently felled by strong winds, severely damaging a carport when it fell.

Every storm recorded in Douglas County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sutherlin Bank Building	4.0 miles	1984
Oakland Historic District	5.5 miles	1979
Winchester Dam	7.1 miles	1996
Winchester Dam	7.2 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000135 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 47 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.